Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
Op maandag 27 februari 2012 09:20:17 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
Le 27/02/2012 08:00, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
Is it necessary to have these --with[out]* compile flags in the package
description?
maybe not necessary, but definitively useful.
maybe it'd be better to just list whatever support it has been built
with.
It has been a standard practice for all our packages allowing
conditional build options for quite a long time. Of course, this could
be mentioned elsewhere as package description.
i have no problem it being in the spec file, but surely a better place rather
than the description... it's not like users really need to know which compile
flags there is or what you can do with rpmbuild...
i'm just saying this info should be moved out to comments in spec file, and
change the description to state what exactly is compiled in...
It can be very useful for users to know what functions are activated in
a package - which the compile flags often indicate. In the man page (or
other documentation) there is often reference to functions available "if
activated".
So I would favour keeping compile flags in the description, if it is
possible that they make a difference in the functions available.
However if the compile flags are required to make the package build
properly, then it does make sense to make them a comment in the spec file.
My 2 cents :)
--
André
